Why Facebook?

How can I find out what the score was for Friday's game? Where are the parties for the weekend going to be at? Is she or he single? All of these questions are fairly common for a teenager to be asking. So, where is it that they go to find out all of this? Almost always it is Facebook. Facebook has adopted great power in the lives of young people recently. But, why do we love and trust this new website to practically control our lives? Is being this connected good for us? Most of us know what Facebook is and or have one for our selves. If not, then your are missing out badly! 

Facebook is the new place that most young people trust to control the majority of their online life. So why is it that we trust so much of our personal information to this brand new website? Most of us don't think of it this way. It might be because everyone is doing it. The classic reason to do things that you would not normally do applies even here. This is part of the reason that the social media giant has grow so rapidly. There is often an absent minded trust when it comes to up and coming things. We all just want to be in on the newest and greatest things. Although, our trust towards Facebook isn't only because of a new trend. Facebook does provide some great profile security options. This allows for you to only let a group as selective as your friends see your information. After all of these precautions that we go through to protect what we do on the site, is using Facebook a good choice?

Facebook is really only as good as you make it. If you use the site to stay in contact with friends, family, or anyone that is important to you, then I would say that the social service is worth wile for you. Although, there are some instances that Facebook can and has caused some harm. Its problems can be as small as reducing productivity in a work place to as bad as some creep stalking you. One colossal example of a recent event that shows how Facebook can be used for destruction is when the Egyptian government was over thrown! While the Egyptian rebels started to bring people to protest by shouting on the streets, young people in the same nation began to provoke the same message through Facebook. The rebellion then grew to over power Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. Once the Egyptian government knew about the use of Facebook in this way, Facebook.com was blocked nationally in order to help to control the uprising. Yet the word had already been spread and a soon to be successful overtaking was well underway.

This new form of social connectivity has made a new name for this generation. I personally love Facebook and all that it can offer in meeting new people to have fun with, or to meet the right people to get things accomplished with.  The use of Facebook is mostly opinion based, so it only matters if you like the impact of Facebook.

References:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9557703/Mother-learnt-of-daughters-death-through-Facebook.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/egypt-facebook-revolution-wael-ghonim_n_822078.html